I know Sir Isteval workships Amaunator as a Lawful Good Paladin. I also know Paladins needs to align to their greater god. So that makes sense since he just views Amaunator as Lathander but is aligned to Amaunator not Lathander.

Can a Paladin be aligned to Lathander- is that Greater God still around? I hear it's likely to return in 5th.

Help!

EDIT: If he can't channel Lathander since Lathander is going aorund calling himself Amaunator would Kelemvor be an option for Lawful Neutral? Any other optopns for Neutral?

I noticed you posted in my other post- I thought Helm was dead. (This is so confusing)

Where odes it say that a Pally can be one step away from the god he workships?

Though paladins are typically considered lawful good, evil paladins and those of non-lawful alignments can exist, though all paladins must be of the exact alignment of their patron deity.[1] All paladins are expected to be a paragon of their alignment and a model for others of their faith.

Think that might be a 3e version of paladins being able to have a deity one step away on the alignment scale. 4e changed that, obviously, but it's something I've noticed others ignore. As to Helm, he came (or is supposed to, if it hasn't been released yet) back in some novel or other I think, maybe its just a sidenote to 5e though, like Bane's return during 3e.

"Be careful to choose your enemies well. Friends don't much matter. But the choice of enemies is very important."

I know Sir Isteval workships Amaunator as a Lawful Good Paladin. I also know Paladins needs to align to their greater god. So that makes sense since he just views Amaunator as Lathander but is aligned to Amaunator not Lathander.

Can a Paladin be aligned to Lathander- is that Greater God still around? I hear it's likely to return in 5th.

Help!

EDIT: If he can't channel Lathander since Lathander is going aorund calling himself Amaunator would Kelemvor be an option for Lawful Neutral? Any other optopns for Neutral?

LOL, this is quite painful irony. The 3e FR Books paved the ground for Amaunator's succession of Lathander and now people who never took a look into Faerûn's past think it's the other way around. What makes it even more painful is the claim that Lathander is the LN aspect of Amaunator. Ridiculous!

For all who don't know it, Lathander is the NEUTRAL GOOD Deity of dawn. Amaunator was in ages past a LAWFUL NEUTRAL god.

Think that might be a 3e version of paladins being able to have a deity one step away on the alignment scale. 4e changed that, obviously, but it's something I've noticed others ignore. As to Helm, he came (or is supposed to, if it hasn't been released yet) back in some novel or other I think, maybe its just a sidenote to 5e though, like Bane's return during 3e.

Prior to 4e Paladins just had to be LAWFUL GOOD. No options available. This might have been the reason why the "one step away" rule came into play. Otherwise only LG Deities would have been able to have Palis.

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So I have a player who wants to play a Lawful Neutral Paladin.
So I'm thinking Lathander....right? That's the Lawful Neutral aspect of Amaunator ...right?